Book, Chapter

  1 pref,   0|              supplication obtaining his request that he might read
  2 pref,   0|         that every one of us learnt his own language by hearing
  3 pref,   0|            and hear the gospel from His own lips rather than from
  4 pref,   0|         angel announced to him that his prayers were heard and his
  5 pref,   0|          his prayers were heard and his alms had in remembrance,
  6 pref,   0|             men as the ministers of His word to their fellow-men.
  7 pref,   0|          gave forth no oracles from His human temple, but communicated
  8 pref,   0|         pride, accepted the plan of his father-in-law, a man of
  9 pref,   0|              that this power is not his own, in the sense of originating
 10 pref,   0|           he seeks God's glory, not his own. But reading and understanding,
 11 pref,   0|             to consider anything as his own, except perhaps what
 12   1, arg |         Argument~The author divides his work into two parts, one
 13   1, arg |        heaven, taking to Himself as his bride the Church, in which
 14   1, arg |            love the love of God for His own sake and the love of
 15   1,   1 |             will add to and perfect His gifts. The loaves in the
 16   1,   1 |            others, be multiplied by His grace, so that, in this
 17   1,   2 |       Abraham offered up instead of his son; for these, though they
 18   1,   6 |           spoken of God, or uttered His praise, in any worthy way?
 19   1,   6 |          although nothing worthy of His greatness can be said of
 20   1,   6 |             own words to rejoice in His praise. For on this principle
 21   1,   6 |        conveys no true knowledge of His nature; but yet all who
 22   1,   9 |             so near, is poured into his very eyeballs. The man,
 23   1,   9 |         from this truth, is weak in his mental vision from dwelling
 24   1,  14 |            medicine, Wisdom, was by His assumption of humanity adapted
 25   1,  14 |          man has applied Himself to his cure, being Himself healer
 26   1,  14 |       penalty of death: Christ used His mortality so well as to
 27   1,  14 |             cured by the example of His virtues. On the other hand,
 28   1,  15 |        Christ, and is stimulated by His coming to judgment~
 29   1,  15 |          Lord from the dead, and of His ascension into heaven, has
 30   1,  15 |             how freely He laid down His life for us when He had
 31   1,  15 |            for us when He had it in His power thus to take it up
 32   1,  15 |             holy living to long for His approach, instead of quaking
 33   1,  15 |           has given us so freely of His Spirit, that in the adversities
 34   1,  15 |     suitable for the building up of His Church, that we may do what
 35   1,  16 |             Chap. 16. Christ purges His church by medicinal afflictions~
 36   1,  16 |                   For the Church is His body, as the apostle's teaching
 37   1,  16 |            us;and it is even called His spouse. His body, then,
 38   1,  16 |             even called His spouse. His body, then, which has many
 39   1,  16 |           may take it to Himself as His bride, without spot or wrinkle,
 40   1,  18 |              therefore, the keys to His Church, that whatsoever
 41   1,  18 |             should not believe that his sins are remitted, they
 42   1,  18 |        should repent, and turn from his sins, should be saved by
 43   1,  18 |           who does not believe that his sins can be pardoned, falls
 44   1,  18 |             faith in the results of his own repentance. ~
 45   1,  20 |         shall revive, not to change his earthly for a heavenly habitation,
 46   1,  20 |            to endure the penalty of his sin. ~
 47   1,  22 |           is to be loved by man for his own sake, or for the sake
 48   1,  22 |        something else. If it is for his own sake, we enjoy him;
 49   1,  22 |        pronounced on him who places his hope in man. ~
 50   1,  22 |            to love even himself for his own sake, but for the sake
 51   1,  22 |             so good a state as when his whole life is a journey
 52   1,  22 |          the unchangeable life, and his affections are entirely
 53   1,  22 |       however, he loves himself for his own sake, he does not look
 54   1,  22 |          relation to God, but turns his mind in upon himself, and
 55   1,  22 |           does not enjoy himself at his best, because he is better
 56   1,  22 |           because he is better when his mind is fully fixed upon,
 57   1,  22 |            is fully fixed upon, and his affections wrapped up in,
 58   1,  22 |          for your own sake, but for His in whom your love finds
 59   1,  22 |         flows. Whoever, then, loves his neighbour aright, ought
 60   1,  22 |            too should love God with his whole heart, and soul, and
 61   1,  22 |             For in this way, loving his neighbour as himself, a
 62   1,  22 |          turns the whole current of his love both for himself and
 63   1,  22 |           love both for himself and his neighbour into the channel
 64   1,  23 |      injunction to love himself and his own body~
 65   1,  23 |           love himself, and to love his own body. The soul which
 66   1,  23 |          who loveth iniquity hateth his own soul." And accordingly
 67   1,  24 |              chap. 24. No man hates his own flesh, not even those
 68   1,  24 |           neither does any man hate his own body. For the apostle
 69   1,  24 |               No man ever yet hated his own flesh." And when some
 70   1,  24 |               No man ever yet hated his own flesh." He adds too, "
 71   1,  25 |            love something more than his body, but does not therefore
 72   1,  25 |             does not therefore hate his body~
 73   1,  25 |             in what measure to love his body, so as to care for
 74   1,  25 |      equally manifest that he loves his body also, and desires to
 75   1,  25 |             safety and soundness of his body. For many have been
 76   1,  25 |            the safety and health of his body because there is something
 77   1,  26 |             should love himself and his own body, seeing, that is,
 78   1,  26 |     together, and your neighbour in his entirety, soul and body
 79   1,  27 |       estimate of things, and keeps his affections also under strict
 80   1,  27 |          but God is to be loved for His own sake. And if God is
 81   1,  29 |        particular actor, and enjoys his art as a great or even as
 82   1,  29 |           with him in admiration of his favourite, not for their
 83   1,  29 |           the more fervent he is in his admiration, the more he
 84   1,  29 |           does all he can to excite his interest by urging his favorite'
 85   1,  29 |       excite his interest by urging his favorite's merits: if, however,
 86   1,  29 |            such a man's contempt of his favourite, and strives in
 87   1,  30 |           it is our duty to help in his need, or whom it would be
 88   1,  30 |              Love worketh no ill to his neighbour." Whoever then
 89   1,  30 |             to commit adultery with his wife, or to kill him, or
 90   1,  30 |            to kill him, or to covet his goods. And as nobody but
 91   1,  30 |            And the Psalmist says in his prayer, "I behaved myself
 92   1,  30 |         shows us pity on account of His own goodness, but we show
 93   1,  30 |           one another on account of His; that is, He pities us that
 94   1,  32 |            of God. God, however, in His use of us, has reference
 95   1,  32 |             of us, has reference to His own goodness. For it is
 96   1,  32 |           of us has no reference to His own advantage, but to ours
 97   1,  32 |    concerned, has reference only to His goodness. When we take pity
 98   1,  32 |             care for him, it is for his advantage we do so; but
 99   1,  33 |           rather worship Him who is his Master, and under whom he
100   1,  33 |          have implied that he fixed his hope of happiness upon him,
101   1,  34 |      created me in the beginning of His way," that is, that those
102   1,  34 |         called him to the reward of His heavenly calling, yet forgetting
103   1,  34 |           down at the right hand of His Father. ~
104   1,  36 |           to express in that place, his error is not pernicious,
105   1,  36 |             him; and yet he betrays his confidence by lying to him.
106   1,  36 |           as I was going to say, if his mistaken interpretation
107   1,  37 |          how, that, out of love for his own opinion, he begins to
108   1,  37 |          shall attain the object of his love. And so these are the
109   1,  38 |            of desire, for no one in his longing for it can set a
110   1,  38 |           set upon it when he is on his way to possess it, he will
111   1,  38 |         find it, when it comes into his possession, of higher value
112   1,  40 |             is bent upon making all his understanding of Scripture
113   2, arg |           Argument~Having completed his exposition of things, the
114   2,   1 |             think of the feeling in his mind; and when the trumpet
115   2,   1 |            indicates the feeling in his mind, independently of his
116   2,   1 |          his mind, independently of his will: and in the same way
117   2,   2 |            giver of the sign has in his own mind. We wish, then,
118   2,   2 |    discovered food, he signals with his voice for the hen to run
119   2,   2 |            the dove by cooing calls his mate, or is called by her
120   2,   3 |           which was poured out upon His feet; and in the sacrament
121   2,   3 |             and in the sacrament of His body and blood He signified
122   2,   3 |         body and blood He signified His will through the sense of
123   2,   3 |         when by touching the hem of His garment the woman was made
124   2,   6 |            this, he does not please his hearer so much as when he
125   2,   7 |            to seek the knowledge of His will, what He commands us
126   2,   7 |         that God is to be loved for His own sake, and our neighbour
127   2,   7 |             God and such a love for his neighbour as Scripture enjoins.
128   2,   7 |     Scripture, compel him to bewail his condition. For the knowledge
129   2,   7 |      turning away from these, fixes his affection on things eternal,
130   2,   7 |          And when, to the extent of his power, he has gazed upon
131   2,   7 |            owing to the weakness of his sight he cannot endure that
132   2,   7 |           of compassion he cleanses his soul, which is violently
133   2,   7 |           diligently in the love of his neighbour; and when he has
134   2,   7 |         reached the point of loving his enemy, full of hopes and
135   2,   7 |            man so purges the eye of his affections as not to place
136   2,   7 |          affections as not to place his neighbour before, or even
137   2,   8 |            all and retained them in his knowledge, if not yet with
138   2,   9 |             the more capacious does his understanding become. For
139   2,  11 |             man who happened to get his hands upon a Greek manuscript,
140   2,  12 |           admonished not to despise his own body; and "the domestics
141   2,  12 |          too. And he calls the Jews his "flesh," on account of the
142   2,  13 |          express, each according to his own ability and judgment,
143   2,  13 |         departs from the meaning of his author, we must either endeavour
144   2,  13 |            the words out, to pardon his sins. What then is purity
145   2,  15 |           for any one man, whatever his experience, to aspire to
146   2,  16 |        between the other two, while His three disciples looked on
147   2,  18 |             be found, it belongs to his Master; and while he recognizes
148   2,  20 |             the dog sometimes makes his assailant run in hot haste
149   2,  20 |             that the mice had eaten his boots, replied, "That is
150   2,  21 |             distant ages, only that his ancestress Venus had given
151   2,  21 |         made and set in order after His own pleasure, and they have
152   2,  22 |        found to have laid hold with his hand upon the heel of his
153   2,  22 |           his hand upon the heel of his brother, who preceded him.
154   2,  22 |            consulted about Jacob or his brother, what does it profit
155   2,  22 |           there is no difference in his chart, which he looks into
156   2,  23 |              and in accordance with His most admirable arrangement
157   2,  23 |       observances as those by which his ghost was brought up the
158   2,  24 |           sort of omens as they see his own conjectures and preconceptions
159   2,  25 |        movements mean, he will give his whole attention to them
160   2,  28 |        which He took as a symbol of His body) was in building. Now
161   2,  28 |     afterwards, although by putting His actions together we can
162   2,  28 |         learnt all those sayings of His, which they are compelled
163   2,  28 |         illustrious bishop, when by his investigations into profane
164   2,  28 |            and write those views of his which are so justly praised?
165   2,  30 |              remains as a result of his work, as, for example, a
166   2,  30 |             to speak, assist God in His operations, as medicine,
167   2,  30 |             any of these arts moves his limbs in any operation without
168   2,  31 |            when the other has given his assent to this also, the
169   2,  31 |          this also, the first draws his conclusion: "Then you are
170   2,  31 |         thus leading him to give up his error, when he finds that
171   2,  31 |         that if he wishes to retain his old opinion, he must of
172   2,  38 |              though Virgil could at his own pleasure make the first
173   2,  38 |             s power to determine at his pleasure that three times
174   2,  39 |          for the Christian to spend his strength on many subjects
175   2,  39 |         labour for the advantage of his brethren. In this way he
176   2,  39 |          these only, and committing his account to writing. This
177   2,  41 |         indicated, shall enter upon his investigations, let him
178   2,  42 |             Christ, and loaded with His light burden, rooted and
179   3,   1 |        Scripture for a knowledge of His will. And when he has become
180   3,   1 |        either from the greatness of his intellect, or the greater
181   3,   2 |         Because there is a need for his remaining, which he adds
182   3,   3 |           bring any charges against His elect, and that Christ will
183   3,   3 |             Christ will not condemn His elect, did not stand in
184   3,   5 |           sacrifice, does not carry his thoughts beyond the customary
185   3,   9 |            free even at the time of his bondage, when it is not
186   3,  10 |          man, moreover, has hope in his own conscience, so far as
187   3,  10 |            and knowledge of God and his neighbour. Now all these
188   3,  10 |    blameable except what the men of his own country and time are
189   3,  10 |         sanctioned by the custom of his companions; and thus it
190   3,  10 |            the enjoyment of God for His own sake, and the enjoyment
191   3,  11 |            Holy Scripture to God or His saints, avails to the pulling
192   3,  11 |           to every man according to his deeds: to them who, by patient
193   3,  12 |         that is to blame. Nobody in his sober senses would believe,
194   3,  12 |        footsteps of Christ, anoints His feet (so to speak) with
195   3,  12 |          when done in the course of his prophecy by the prophet
196   3,  14 |            one is willing to defile his own dwelling; he ought not,
197   3,  15 |             laws of love to God for His own sake, and love to one'
198   3,  16 |             says Christ, "and drink His blood, ye have no life in
199   3,  16 |             memory of the fact that His flesh was wounded and crucified
200   3,  16 |         shalt heap coals of fire on his head," one would think a
201   3,  16 |            enemy of one who came to his assistance in distress.
202   3,  16 |           Lord says, "He who loveth his life shall lose it," we
203   3,  16 |            a man's duty to care for his life, but that He says in
204   3,  16 |     figurative sense, "Let him lose his life" that is, let him destroy
205   3,  16 |           use which he now makes of his life, and through which
206   3,  16 |             life, and through which his desires are fixed on temporal
207   3,  16 | figuratively for sin, so that it is his sin you are not to help. ~
208   3,  17 |           he has determined to keep his virgin unmarried, he tries
209   3,  18 |       prayer when he was married to his wife. For he says: "Blessed
210   3,  18 |            Adam, and gavest him Eve his wife for an helper and stay. ...
211   3,  21 |         this injury at the hands of his impious and unnatural son,
212   3,  21 |           not only bore with him in his mad passion, but mourned
213   3,  21 |             but mourned over him in his death. He certainly was
214   3,  21 |              seeing that it was not his own injuries but the sins
215   3,  21 |            injuries but the sins of his son that moved him. For
216   3,  21 |            he had given orders that his son should not be slain
217   3,  21 |             design, he mourned over his son's death, not because
218   3,  21 |             s death, not because of his own loss, but because he
219   3,  21 |             comforted himself after his death. ~
220   3,  21 |            death, he was accused of his crime by a prophet, who,
221   3,  21 |             he had come to show him his sin set before him the parable
222   3,  21 |            to him spared to take of his own flock, but set his poor
223   3,  21 |           of his own flock, but set his poor neighbour's one lamb
224   3,  21 |         neighbour's one lamb before his guest to eat. And David'
225   3,  21 |           against him, he wiped out his sin in deep penitence. But
226   3,  21 |         regard to one woman. But in his case the immoderate desire
227   3,  21 |        ewe-lamb to make a feast for his king, but for his guest.
228   3,  21 |         feast for his king, but for his guest. In the case of his
229   3,  21 |           his guest. In the case of his son Solomon, however, this
230   3,  21 |             for in the beginning of his reign he was inflamed with
231   3,  22 |             not transfer the act to his habits of life. For many
232   3,  23 |            dare to vaunt himself in his own good deeds, and in comparison
233   3,  23 |              and in comparison with his own righteousness, to despise
234   3,  25 |        serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty." Bread is used
235   3,  25 |             as for example, "Out of his belly shall flow rivers
236   3,  30 |             relates to the Lord and His body, the second to the
237   3,  30 |            seventh to the devil and his body. Now these rules, as
238   3,  30 |       passages without using any of his rules; finding, indeed,
239   3,  30 |        passage of the kind to which his rules apply. As, for example,
240   3,  30 |           warranted by the facts to his very elaborate and useful
241   3,  31 |         first is about the Lord and His body, and it is this, that,
242   3,  31 |            body that is, Christ and His Church are sometimes indicated
243   3,  32 |         although they seem to be in His Church. And hence this rule
244   3,  32 |        requires the reader to be on his guard when Scripture, although
245   3,  32 |             asunder and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites." ~
246   3,  33 |              but also to suffer for His sake." Who, then, can doubt
247   3,  34 |          when applied to Christ and His Church, of which Solomon
248   3,  34 |           must then be carefully on his guard against seeking in
249   3,  34 |           race; but the prophet, in his depth of meaning, while
250   3,  34 |             works, but according to His own purpose and grace, which
251   3,  35 |           presence of only three of His disciples, our Lord was
252   3,  35 |  transfigured on the mount, so that His face shone as the sun, and
253   3,  35 |          face shone as the sun, and His raiment was white as snow,
254   3,  35 |             means just the same as "His praise shall continually
255   3,  36 |           be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let
256   3,  36 |      revealed every man may receive his reward according to the
257   3,  37 |              is about the devil and his body. For he is the head
258   3,  37 |          wicked, who are in a sense his body, and destined to go
259   3,  37 |             of the Church, which is His body, destined to be with
260   3,  37 |          destined to be with Him in His eternal kingdom and glory.
261   3,  37 |           is called of the Lord and His body, directs us, when Scripture
262   3,  37 |             himself as in regard to his body; and his body is made
263   3,  37 |             regard to his body; and his body is made up not only
264   3,  37 |            although the devil sends his angels to all nations, yet
265   3,  37 |           to all nations, yet it is his body, not himself, that
266   3,  37 |        except that he himself is in his body, which is beaten small
267   3,  37 |          Lord giveth wisdom: out of His mouth comets knowledge and
268   4, arg |       Passing to the second part of his work, that which treats
269   4, arg |      premises that it is no part of his intention to write a treatise
270   4, arg |        gladness, and practice it in his life. Finally, he exhorts
271   4, arg |         lead a life in harmony with his own teaching, and to show
272   4,   4 |           the future. But once that his hearers are friendly, attentive,
273   4,   5 |       eloquence, and with profit to his hearers, even though he
274   4,   5 |             discerns the poverty of his own speech, the more he
275   4,   5 |             so that what he says in his own words he may prove by
276   4,   5 |            though small and weak in his own words, may gain strength
277   4,   5 |         testimony of great men. For his proof gives pleasure when
278   4,   5 |            when he cannot please by his mode of speech. But if a
279   4,   6 |        sacred writings which God in His goodness has provided to
280   4,   7 |    eloquence, so I do not deny that his wisdom naturally produced,
281   4,   7 |           had been trying to injure his character; and being compelled
282   4,   7 |            he speaks! But wisdom is his guide, eloquence his attendant;
283   4,   7 |             is his guide, eloquence his attendant; he follows the
284   4,   7 |           as if granting so much to his detractors, not as confessing
285   4,   7 |          hesitate plainly to assert his knowledge, because without
286   4,   7 |           bring forward anything of his as a model of eloquence,
287   4,   7 |           those epistles which even his very detractors, who thought
288   4,   7 |             detractors, who thought his bodily presence weak and
289   4,   7 |            bodily presence weak and his speech contemptible, confessed
290   4,   7 |   altogether, or whether he suspend his voice at the first, the
291   4,   7 |          speech, checks the flow of his invective, and not now speaking
292   4,   7 |          out illustrious from among his brethren, both in regard
293   4,   9 |           as about the clearness of his teaching. ~
294   4,  10 |            if only the substance of his thought be conveyed and
295   4,  10 |            he ought either to bring his address to a close, or pass
296   4,  12 |             understood, he has said his say, whatever may have been
297   4,  12 |              whatever may have been his manner of saying it. But
298   4,  12 |       wishes to delight or persuade his hearer as well, he will
299   4,  12 |      accomplish that end by putting his thought in any shape no
300   4,  12 |          pleased in order to secure his attention, so he must be
301   4,  12 |              when the hearer yields his assent to one who simply
302   4,  12 |         delighted, and yet not give his consent. And what will be
303   4,  13 |     eloquence, if he does not yield his consent, when it is only
304   4,  13 |            for the sake of securing his consent that the speaker
305   4,  13 |        though it is demonstrated to his own confession, and clothed
306   4,  14 |              But may God avert from His Church what the prophet
307   4,  14 |           the same prophet compared His own word spoken through
308   4,  14 |             own word spoken through His holy prophets. God forbid,
309   4,  14 |       eloquence, such as we find in his subsequent letters, a style
310   4,  15 |           he ought, before he opens his mouth, to lift up his thirsty
311   4,  15 |         opens his mouth, to lift up his thirsty soul to God, to
312   4,  16 |          though they cannot without His), and yet they are applied;
313   4,  17 |        carry with him the assent of his hearer. For it is these
314   4,  18 |            be able to judge between his brethren? But brother goes
315   4,  18 |           is it that the changes in his tone, so frequent and so
316   4,  18 |             testify to the depth of his emotion? Why is it, in fine,
317   4,  18 |          matters deserve so much at his hands? God forbid. No; but
318   4,  18 |             of cold water to one of His disciples shall in no wise
319   4,  18 |     disciples shall in no wise lose his reward, is very trivial
320   4,  18 |       preacher takes this saying as his text, he should think his
321   4,  18 |           his text, he should think his subject very unimportant,
322   4,  19 |            either in Himself, or in His works, what a field for
323   4,  19 |            before man, who can task his powers to the utmost in
324   4,  20 |         thereto. Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made.
325   4,  20 |          has not preserved these in his translation. I, however (
326   4,  20 |             the called according to His purpose. For whom He did
327   4,  20 |           conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the
328   4,  20 |      against us? He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him
329   4,  21 |             in the subdued style in his treatise on the sacrament
330   4,  21 |            cannot appear to contain His blood by which we are redeemed
331   4,  21 |            and was uncovered within his tent, and his nakedness
332   4,  21 |      uncovered within his tent, and his nakedness was exposed by
333   4,  21 |            nakedness was exposed by his second son, and was carefully
334   4,  21 |             was carefully hidden by his elder and his younger sons.
335   4,  21 |             hidden by his elder and his younger sons. It is not
336   4,  21 |              in the introduction to his work, we find the following
337   4,  21 |           one man God would deliver His people from their enemies,
338   4,  21 |            of the staff that was in his hand, there rose up fire
339   4,  21 |             s divine nature, but to His flesh, whose ever-flowing
340   4,  21 |             satisfied the hearts of His thirsting people. And so
341   4,  21 |        crucified, should abolish in His flesh the sins of the whole
342   4,  21 |          angel, then, stretched out his staff and touched the rock,
343   4,  21 |            to proving and enforcing his point. ~
344   4,  21 |          another painter should put his hand over it, as if to improve
345   4,  21 |             it, as if to improve by his superior skill the painting
346   4,  21 |           feel deeply insulted, and his indignation would be justly
347   4,  21 |       intermingled with practice on his own part, become thoroughly
348   4,  23 |           And the speaker has it in his discretion to use the subdued
349   4,  25 |             succeeds in persuading, his eloquence has not secured
350   4,  25 |         subdued style, he persuades his hearers that what he says
351   4,  25 |              he persuades them that his speech is elegant and ornate.
352   4,  26 |         with us, that is, to compel his assert by calling in the
353   4,  27 |             life is in harmony with his teaching will teach with
354   4,  28 |          breach of modesty, because his life protects him against
355   4,  28 |              and caring for men. In his very speech even he prefers
356   4,  28 |             a teacher should govern his words, not let the words
357   4,  28 |         more painful object than if his body too were deformed,
358   4,  29 |            cannot do even this, let his life be such as shall not
359   4,  29 |          example to others; and let his manner of living be an eloquent
360   4,  29 |           denounces those who steal His words every one from his
361   4,  29 |            His words every one from his neighbour. For those who
362   4,  29 |            seem to be the result of his own thought, and yet they
363   4,  29 |         have nothing in common with his manner of life. And so God
364   4,  29 |            has said that they steal His words who would appear good
365   4,  30 |            preacher should commence his discourse with prayer to
366   4,  30 |             to pray God to put into his mouth a suitable discourse.
367   4,  30 |          that all the praise may be His "in whose hand are both
368   4,  31 |         Christian doctrine, not for his own instruction only, but